LibGuides: BKM COVID-19/Coronavirus Disease: Home

Introduction

Welcome. We hope that this page can be a useful tool for residents of Lancaster County during the Coronavirus/ COVID-19 Outbreak. These are difficult times, and those of us at the Library System of Lancaster County want you to know that we are all in this together.

Local Information

Links for COVID-19 news for Lancaster County.

Lancaster County COVID-19 Hub
A one-stop site for statistics on Coronavirus in Lancaster County.
Pennsylvania Department of Health: Coronavirus
LNP Coverage of Coronavirus
LNP is currently offering free unlimited access to articles centered on COVID-19.
City of Lancaster's Facebook
Mayor Sorace is doing daily live video updates for the City of Lancaster, plus other important updates.

Tracking the Virus

Coronavirus COVID-19 Global Cases by Johns Hopkins CSSE
BEWARE: There have been malicious decoy/clone sites made that look like the Johns Hopkins COVID-19 map. The link above is the safe/correct link. If you search for the dashboard online, be very careful that you are using the authentic web site, which does NOT prompt or require the user download any .exe executable.

CDC Updates

Self-populating feed of updates from the Center of Disease Control

Daily Cases Updates
Updates daily.

WHO Coronavirus Resources

Information from the World Health Organization

Coronavirus Situation Map
Regularly updated map of confirmed cases.
Rolling Updates on Coronavirus
Travel Advice from the WHO

Making Protective Equipment and Supplies

Please consider donating extra masks, face shields, gloves, and other personal protective equipment to a nearby healthcare facility!

Learn More

Understand the science behind COVID-19 in real time as new discoveries are made.

COVID-19 Research Database
The COVID-19 research database is a collection of data sets made freely available to public health and policy researchers to extract insights for combatting the COVID-19 pandemic.
LitCovid
LitCovid is a curated literature hub for tracking up-to-date scientific information about the 2019 novel Coronavirus. It is the most comprehensive resource on the subject, providing a central access to research articles in PubMed. The articles are updated daily and are further categorized by different research topics and geographic locations for improved access.
Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) Summary from the National Library of Medicine
Includes links to clinical studies (ClinicalTrials.gov), public health emergency literature (DisasterLit), journal article citations (PubMed) and GenBank Sequence Data in the Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 data hub.